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Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.
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Many people know about the Spanish bullfight, where bulls are killed. But we don't talk much about another cruel Spanish pastime. Spain has their own breed of dogs for hunting and the belief that the more brutally you kill your dog, the more successful will be the hunt next year. Every year between 50,000 and 100,000 dogs are burned, hanged, and other medieval cruelties. “McGrady’s intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book became a bestseller in 1969” “The Swiss Air Force did not respond because the airplane hijacking occurred outside normal office hours, which are 08:00–12:00 and 13:30–17:00 Monday to Friday” Good news! Humans have successfully wiped out one of the flu lines (Yamagata). Self-isolation during the coronavirus seems to have really worked, and some viruses didn’t survive it (flu cases dropped dramatically then too). This strange Indian rocket is testing the emergency rescue system of a new manned spacecraft. For the test, the ship doesn’t need to be put into orbit, just brought to maximum air pressure. So there’s no reason in wasting a big rocket. Russian movie The Challenge was not the first filmed in space (but the first filmed by professional filmmakers in space). Back in 1983, the USSR released the Return from Orbit, where there was footage shot especially for the movie by cosmonauts. Many people don’t realize how long the period of Ancient Egypt lasted. Cleopatra is closer to iPhones than she is to the Egyptian pyramids. To her, the pyramids of her ancestors were older than she is to us now. In Taiwan, a belief has long been popular that tech works better when Kuai Kuai snacks are nearby (because the name translates to “well-behaved”). The Kaz II is “the ghost yacht”. The fate of its three-man crew remains unknown, and the mysterious circumstances. Food and flatware were set out on the table, a laptop computer was set up and turned on, and the engine was still running. When Triboulet, a court jester, violated an order of Francis I forbidding Triboulet to make jokes about the queen and courtesans, the king ordered his execution. Francis granted Triboulet the right to choose how he would die. The jester said “Good sire, by Saint Goody Two-Shoes and Saint Fatbelly, patrons of insanity, I ask to die from old age.” Laughing, the king ordered that Triboulet not be executed but instead be banished from the realm. In 1983, the airplane ran out of fuel in flight, but it did not crash and began to plan. “The co-pilot chose Gimli Air Base, where he used to serve, as the landing site. He didn’t realize the base had been converted into an automobile racetrack.” A great weekend read: the revenge story of a French cobbler who was denounced because of jealousy. This urban legend inspired Dumas to write The Count of Monte Cristo. List of titles held only by one person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_held_only_by_one_person Test pilot Jack Woolams as a bit of a practical joker. While flying the still unknown experimental P-59 jet airplane, he would join formation with unsuspecting pilots flying propeller-driven fighters and to their surprise, wave at them while wearing a gorilla mask, and then fly away leaving them behind. The culture does not talk much about the Greek Civil War of 1946-1949. And yet it was the first proxy war of the Cold War. It was between the rights (backed by the US and Britain) and the lefts (backed by the USSR and Yugoslavia). Turritopsis dohrnii is a species of immortal jellyfish. In case of old age or damage, they are able to transform back into a polyp (baby form) and start living from the beginning. |